a second time in about 1915. The rearrangements of the offices and waiting rooms was carried out during the First World War, and at about the same time the large window at the buffer stop end of the platform was opened up to create a large door for handling parcels traffic. The station bookstall was removed in 1940 and during the Second World War the Stationmaster's Office was requisitioned by the army as the Railway Transport Officer (RTO) Office. The RTO also had a temporary wooden office under the Port Cochere. Electric lighting was finally installed in the late 1940s, but apart from that little was spent on the building in British Railways days. In the 1950s the rotten wooden screen above the platform lone was patched with zinc sheeting, and by the time of closure there were gaps in the wooden screen, smoke louvres and roof lights. BR proposed closure of the line in 1963 but this was vigorously opposed by the local community and the proposal was withdrawn. However, the line was gradually run down over the next few years. Goods traffic was withdrawn in 1967 and this enabled the railway to lift all the sidings, including the two in the train shed, and remove all the signals. The station was finally closed on 3 March 1969. The remaining track was lifted in 1970 and the building lay derelict until the whole site was acquired by the District Council. Before the line was closed the station was included in the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: it is a Grade II* listed building. After closure The station complex consists of Station Bridge, renamed Mercury Bridge in 1975, the passenger terminus, the goods shed, engine shed, gas house, depot manager's house, Station Cottages and the station master's house. The houses were sold off and still survive. The goods shed was demolished, and later the site was re-used for the swimming baths, but the rest of the railway infrastructure survives including the bridge which continues to form part of the main road between Richmond and Catterick Garrison, the A6136. Eventually the passenger terminus became a Farm and Garden Centre, which closed in 2001. In 2003 a community-based project to regenerate Richmond Station was given the go-ahead. The aims of the project, which was spearheaded by the Richmondshire Building Preservation Trust, were: To provide activities and recreational spaces